1. INTRO : ANNUNCIATION

And the angel came in unto her, and said
Hail, thou that art highly favoured
The lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.


2. A DARK GLASS

Insane thoughts they rise
Come to life in my solitude
Too desensitized to cry
I kneel in this empty room

God’s behind this dark glass
Abandoned its delirious mass

Through the darkness and the cold
Voices beckon me to fall
I see a spider on the wall
Then on my body, my body it crawls

God’s behind this dark glass

Dark glass, dark glass, dark glass
A Spider-god will love us all (x2)
Dark glass, dark glass, dark glass
A Spider-god will rape us all

In a blackened and empty room
A psychopathic theophany looms

God’s behind this dark glass


3. SPRINGTIME NEVER COMES

The summer of your life
Caught you by surprise
Never fully realised
What joy was really like

If you hide your pain away
You’ll always stand alone
You see springtime never came
And your own cross you chose

The fall brought you shame
Nearly drove you insane
Cast your life away
Dark reveries remain

If you hide your pain away...

A delusive cold haven
Dragged you down, down to hell,
And destroyed your heaven
And no one could foretell
That a ruthless grey winter
Could amount to such pain;
Wretched and sinister
You fatally became


4. AFTERWORLD DELIRIUM

Live under judging eyes
Along your narrow path
Your wishes you sacrifice
To fulfill nobody’s command

Devoted to an illusion
Which binds your will to power
Subjected to a delusion
To keep you forever a coward

On this side of the grave
Your life begins and it ends
Beyond this earthly grave
You will find only nothingness

Whimpering ignorance
Keeps you from illumination
That when you die
There’s no hope for resurrection

The joy in being tried
Can only be right
To a weak and feeble mind
A weak and feeble mind!

On this side of the grave...


5. THEME FOR A FALLEN ANGEL

Endless horizons extend
The stillest hour draws near
Our pathos looms on the edge
In our loneliness there’s no fear

Like the eagle be proud
To be wise like the snake
This is the truth we have found
We fly and we coil to our fate

Are we alone in this life?
Over what ends must we strive?
So far I’ve found only blight
Regale me with the joy I can’t find

Like the eagle be proud
To be wise like the snake
This is the truth we have found
We fly and we coil to our fate

Just like the eagle and snake
We fly and we coil to our fate
Dark is the path to the light
But beauty shines in its all might


6. THE ANOINTED

Come in heathen times
As dismal mothers cried
Misguided Messenger
Anticipated danger

Gone for a long time
Countless tears have we cried
A sad messenger
Fulfilled the slaves’ vengeance

Ascension imaginary
A god so unnecessary

Messiah of the lost
The symbol of the cross
A hero of abjection
Equals mankind’s “salvation”

Ascension imaginary
A god so unnecessary
Behold the man in tears
As he succumbs to the spear


7. ARIADNE

I led you out of the maze and right into my arms from the Dark
You turned away never to come back, won’t you come back?

Where are you? hidden, unknown god
Where are you? everlusting love

Now that you’re gone, I had to look away, in shame
Who loves me still and take away the pain? the pain?

Where are you? hidden, unknown god
Where are you? everlusting love


8. URBAN GOTHIC

A promise of joy,
It comes to nought
The search for a saviour
Leads only to failure

The urban sprawl
Rising to the sky
Everywhere it crawls
It brings this black night

A cloud of depression
Swallows you in suffocation
Urban gothic decadence
Wears you down in somnolence

Down those dark alley streets
Under morbid lamppost light
Held you in my arms and we kissed,
As santiago sank into the night

A promise of joy
A promise of sunlight
Erased by smoke and fog
Eclipsed by this night


9. BEFORE THE END

My dearest friend
A dark cloud foresees disaster
An ominous horizon
Will shroud us forever after

You reach out to me
But my path you can’t follow
Give me your hand
Before the end

I turned my back on you
My will led me to solitude
I crawl on a lonely trail
As in regret I let you stray

You reach out to me...

Joy hurts me
And I hurt back

You reach out to me...


10. LUCIFUGOUS

Born under the morning star
A heathen flame inside my heart
A red curse burns through my veins
Your blood is what I crave

I hate the light
From the dark I rise
I can’t stand the light
It scorches my eyes

There’s no sun in my life
In the shades I’d rather hide
Lucifugous to the core
Venus star sacred law

I hate the light...

I’ll never be the one to seek redemption
You don’t see me crawl, writhe in desolation
I await your caress your sweet damnation

I hate the light...


11. OUTRO : MYSTERY OF PERSEVERANCE

"It is finished";
And he bowed his head and gave up the ghost.